Full Time Job
Principal Software Engineer, Graphics
WB Games
- Paid
- Full Time
- Executive (10+ years) Experience
Job Description
Every great story has a new beginning. We're excited to announce that Discovery and WarnerMedia have combined to become Warner Bros. Discovery. WBD is a premier global media and entertainment company offering audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, sports, news, streaming and gaming. We're home to the world's best storytellers, creating world-class products for consumers. From brilliant creatives to technology trailblazers and beyond, join us as we step into the next chapter.For the past 25 years Monolith Productions has been obsessed with delivering a unique gaming experience for our fans. Starting with Blood, our very first title – all the way to our most recent offering, Middle-earth: Shadow of War, we are constantly pushing the envelope to combine innovative gameplay, inventive narratives, cutting edge tech & AI, and stunning visuals. We are challenging ourselves even further to ensure that our next project is going to be our best yet. That's where you come in – for us to achieve that, we need the best and brightest talent the industry has to offer. Help us create our next AAA title.
THE JOB
Join the Wonder Woman team and help bring an iconic DC Superhero to life!
As a Principal Graphics Software Engineer, you will be at the forefront the graphics and rendering pipelines within our proprietary game engine. If you enjoy driving cutting-edge visuals under the hood, this is the role for you!
Working as a member of the Graphics team, you will work closely with our artists to identify, architect, and build and extend the features we need to have world-class visuals in our new game.
Come work with our highly collaborative team, and help us deliver a superhero experience as epic as Wonder Woman herself!
The Daily
• Design, author, maintain C++ code that meets all design and art requirements for our rendering pipelines
• Collaborate with technical leadership and other engineers to help establish overall technical design and architecture of our systems
• Collaborate with artists to identify and drive the development of graphics features
• Profile and optimize problems related to load times, memory, and CPU usage
The Essentials
• 10+ years of professional experience in C++
• Highly proficient with shader languages and graphics APIs
• Deep understanding of modern rendering techniques, graphics algorithms and hardware
• Experience with graphics debugging and profiling tools such as PIX, Nsight, and RenderDoc
• Strong 3D math skills
The Nice to Haves
• Experience with console and graphics APIs
• Experience as a direct manager of team members
• Experience developing first or third person action games
• Experience helping maintain a live software product or game
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.
If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for this position, please contact us at recruitadmin@warnermedia.com.
Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rjq3nb-3-236-171-68-42 in your application.